The YBP
decided that when the book was fully translated it would publish
the English translation in book form with a supplement of
relevant materials about the Rokiskis-area communities that were
not available to the Rakishker Landsmanshaft in 1952.In the fall of 2016, Joel
Alpert, the editor of the YBP’s “book-in-print” program, asked
Philip Shapiro, whose ancestors lived in the Rokiskis area, and
Philip’s wife Aldona, who is a native of Lithuania’s “highlands”
region, to identify possible materials for inclusion in the
supplement and, where necessary, secure the necessary copyright
approvals.

From October
2016 until April 2017, Philip and Aldona contacted numerous
archives, museums, libraries, historians, and individuals
searching for images, documents, and original family histories
that could be included in the supplement.Additionally, very high
priority was given to creating the most comprehensive list
possible of the Jews from the Rokiskis area who were victims of
the Holocaust, a task which was undertaken by Barry Mann.

Since the
book version of the translation and supplement could only show
images in black-and-white, some color images that could not be
understood in black-and-white format were not included in the
printed version.Other color images were
included but lost some of their vibrancy when printed in
black-and-white format.Fortunately, JewishGen’s
KehilaLinks website for Rokiskis can present of all of the
collected materials in their original appearance.

In the (2017)
printed version of the English translation, the table of
contents for the supplementary materials appears on page 658.The following modified table
of contents lists the full set of supplementary materials, shown
in the order of their presentation here.

Photographs and Images

Appendix Page/printed version

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